I will say that the Droid won't kill the iPhone... I am not going to say iPhone users should be Droid users or it is going to be better than a Blackberry.
I do agree... there are people who will buy the iPhone for a long time, just as there are those who bought iPods, despite many better features on other PMPs.
It's pretty much even the wrong question to be asking... it won't be the DROID killing the iPhone, simply because it doesn't have to be the DROID, and in the end, the iPhone won't be killed.
Rather, it will be Android dominating the smart phone market, pushing the idea of smart phones down in price and up in features, faster than Apple ever can. Even with all that money in the bank, Apple is just one company. Every significant company in the cellular business other than Apple, Nokia, RIM, and Palm are working on Android devices. Nokia isn't doing a handset, but they have an Android tablet in the works, so it's not guaranteed even they will stick to Symbian.
Most of the OS slots in Smart Phones right now going to Android come from Symbian and Microsoft devices... but that's only because the other three are fully proprietary.
People just have to understand, no matter which phone you go with, there will always be quirks. All phones have 'issues' the first time a model comes out, and it will 'improve' over time.
Yup. And not every device is going to be uniformly perfect versus something else. Even as a PC user, I can see the occasional Nice Thing Apple puts into a Mac.. I'm just not willing to move from "open" to "proprietary" to get that... much less forego the dozens of things the PC is doing for me that a Mac can't.
As for iPhone Envy... I semi-had it, but never really liked iPod or iPhone cause of the one design thing that I have never really been happy about... An irreplaceable battery.
For me... maybe a little. I've been literally surrounded by iPhone users, and yeah, there was a bit of cool there. Much of it was just for show.. a flasher GUI might look cooler, but in the end, if it's functional, I'm good with it. I used a Palm for years, and my iPhone envy relative to that was simply that Apple was supporting their OS, devices, and developers, while the PalmOS was stagnant, they didn't update old hardware they easily could have, and the best you could usually see in apps were updates of older apps. No fun.
On the other hand, I could write and publish my own Palm app... I couldn't do this on the iPhone, unless Apple deemed it ok. I can understand some level of entrance exam to be in their store, but no, iPod apps are in the store or they don't functionally exist. No thanks... that alone would keep me away... I know better than Steve Jobs what programs belong on my purchased hardware.
So nearly a year ago, rather than buying another abandoned Palm to replace my 700p when it died (and Verizon offered cheap upgrades), I sat and waited for Verizon to get into the 21rst century on smart phones. DROID was close as I could expect to "just what I asked for"... I was there in line at 6AM.
